Women's March, Kirkland Lake 1941

During the 1941 gold miners' strike in Kirkland Lake, Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn sent provincial police to the town town to intimidate the 4000 striking miners. The next day all the women and children marched through town to show they refused to be intimidated.
Though the workers were defeated, the strike galvanized the Canadian labour movement and heavily influenced Canada’s and Ontario’s wartime and post-war labour policy.